Mool Toaster faces designer toaster duo, gets burned

These days it takes a lot to please us in a purely conceptual and wholly impractical toaster design, and while the "Mool Toaster" from Atil Kizilbayir does qualify as a fancy new take on bread browning, it falls on its face -- butter side down, if you will -- when up against toasting gods like the Glide and the ROLLERtoaster. Just like its counterparts, the Mool has a complete disregard for safety, particularly from the exploratory fingers of little children, but it also manages a heating-inefficient design, bigger-than-a-toaster footprint, and a so-so color scheme. You're supposed to load up the removable rack with your bread stuffs, but we're not sure if it even pops out automatically, or if you'll need to risk life and limb to remove the rack. Does Atil seriously expect us to commit our imaginary sliced breads to his actual award winning conceptual toaster? Puhlease.

[Via SCI FI Tech]

[akintz @ Apr 2nd 2007 4:32PM]

Pssh... I'll take the knife from the Hitchhiker's Guide movie that toasts bread as you slice it.

[Tim @ Apr 3rd 2007 8:44PM]

When I was watching that I immediately wondered about the problem of when you want toast the next morning but you don't want the stale end-piece you toasted yesterday.

[Brandon West @ Apr 2nd 2007 4:38PM]

I'm sorry but the toaster, much like the mousetrap, has been perfected in simplicity. There will never be a better design in my opinion, and frankly there doesn't need to be.

[Dan @ Apr 2nd 2007 5:16PM]

Auk! I can't believe me eyes! Sure there will be better toasters yet! I'm waiting for the one that transforms itself to the bread used. The one that scrapes the mold off. The voice controlled ones that let you say "No, a little darker". You're saying things they said a century ago. We's s'pozed to be learning from the past. Oh well.

[BatteryAcid @ Apr 2nd 2007 9:20PM]

The better mouse trap is great. I think the toaster is great for its time but can be improved on. Personally i have always had toaster ovens.

[Tim @ Apr 3rd 2007 9:28PM]

I once saw the king of toasters at a hotel breakfast bar. It was more an open miniature oven with a moving tray inside, but it could toast anything and everything all at once. That's what I'd call the perfect toaster.

[t-bone @ Apr 2nd 2007 6:45PM]

Why does everything have to be child-safe? Not everybody has kids.

[Anthony @ Apr 2nd 2007 8:33PM]

Design for design's sake is all well & good, but can't we get to more important things?

You know- like figuring out a way for me to microwave my Chipotle burrito w/o taking the tin foil off?

[McFly @ Apr 2nd 2007 11:41PM]

award winning? what was it up against i wonder...

[Robert @ Apr 3rd 2007 12:12AM]

Child Safe? Something tells me that the people who can afford this designer toaster don't spend their money on children, or they pay someone else to raise them so they don't have to deal with them sticking their fingers in toasters.

[Lars Groeger @ Apr 3rd 2007 8:19AM]

A Mole Toaster ??
Thats disgusting ! Even if its well designed....
There must be other ways to get rid of them.....